Chapter 205: Heaven-Defending Soul Shield

Lin Zhangqing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He finally made it through; it was really too dangerous just now, breaking through his seven layers of defense directly.

The last black light was caught off guard by the suddenly appearing main body of the Heavenly Thunder Shield and hit it directly, dying on impact.

However, just in case, Lin Zhangqing used defense talismans again and put three more layers of defensive light shields on himself, although he knew this was definitely a waste, he couldn't help but do it.

After all, he only had one life, and no matter how cautious he was, it wouldn't be too much. The cultivation world is the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, and there is no regret medicine to buy.

Now that the matter was over, Lin Zhangqing felt a burst of lingering fear. That black light was definitely a cultivator's divine soul.

Lunging straight at Lin Zhangqing's face, this action was also very obvious: it wanted to possess him.

Unfortunately, it met Lin Zhangqing. Defensive light shields, defensive spirit shields, there were seven layers in total.

There were also three layers of instantly cast Thunder Shields. The black light had no way to avoid them, and the thunder attribute caused too much damage to the spiritual body.

After a narrow escape, it broke through these defensive layers, but didn't expect that a Thunder-attribute Heavenly Thunder Shield would suddenly appear at the end, directly hitting it until its soul flew and scattered.

That cultivator's divine soul was also unlucky to the extreme. If the two Lu Xinyi brothers had come in, or if other Qi Refining stage cultivators had come in, that black light would definitely have succeeded in possession.

Unfortunately, its luck was really too bad; it met Lin Zhangqing, and it was its fate to have this tribulation.

Scanning the surroundings with his divine sense, he easily found the round bracelet and the piece of black wood that had been blasted dozens of meters away.

He went over and took the round bracelet in his hand first, trying to inject spiritual energy into it to refine it. After more than an hour, it was finally refined.

It's just that I don't know why, but this time it felt much harder to refine than the storage bracelet in the secret realm.

Fortunately, no matter how hard it was, it was now refined. Probing his divine sense inside, the space inside was not small, about 1,000 cubic meters.

At first glance, Lin Zhangqing saw thousands of Upper-Grade Spirit Stones inside. These things piled together, sparkling and translucent, were still very eye-catching.

And there was a larger pile of Middle-Grade Spirit Stones next to it; he estimated the quantity was definitely more than 50,000.

However, spirit stones were not something Lin Zhangqing cared much about. When he had time, he would find a time to count them.

Next, he also saw three black flying swords, a small black tower, a black shield, and a treasure ship with pavilions and towers; this looked very high-end.

Lin Zhangqing estimated that these should all be magic treasures. With his current cultivation base, he couldn't use them, so Lin Zhangqing just took a rough look and didn't pay too much attention to them.

His main goal now was to find books or jade slips and the like; these were the only things that might have records about this place.

He also wanted to see if he could find the answer here, letting him know what this piece of black wood was? Was it the thing he guessed?

He would then decide how to deal with it. Of course, before knowing its function, Lin Zhangqing would not touch it.

However, it was estimated that it would not be easy to find the answer.

There were more than 300 jade boxes in the storage bracelet, of all sizes, and some were even pasted with high-grade Spirit-Sealing Talismans that looked very high-end.

He estimated that if there were any important books or jade slips, they should be preserved in the jade boxes.

There were also 26 jade bottles. These jade bottles didn't have any labels or Spirit-Sealing Talismans.

Lin Zhangqing had the experience of opening the storage bracelet in the secret realm last time, and he already had a bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, except for nine that were empty, the remaining 17 jade bottles, when opened, were all piles of black or red substances. This was obviously because too much time had passed, and all the pills had turned into waste residue.

Lin Zhangqing was helpless and could only comfort himself that even if there were any in good shape, he definitely wouldn't dare to take them. God knows if they would have deteriorated after such a long time.

Next were some clothes and a lot of sundries. These had to be carefully identified. The clothes were nothing, but there might be some relatively precious things among the sundries.

After all, a cultivator who used magic treasures was at least a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator. Things he kept should have some use.

Lin Zhangqing flipped through them roughly and actually found an identity jade token full of cracks inside. This jade token seemed as if it would turn into a pile of fragments if it were slightly stronger.

Lin Zhangqing took it gently in his hand and saw a black lotus carved on the front of the jade token, with the three words "Black Soul Sect" in the middle of the lotus.

He flipped the jade token over; the carving should be a person's name, Zhao Zihong.

With a thought in his heart, this should be the identity jade token of the black light just now! Cracking like this, it was very likely because he destroyed that black light. Of course, this was just Lin Zhangqing's own guess.

After knowing the content on it, this jade token was useless. However, Lin Zhangqing still found a jade box and packed it up.

Next were the jade boxes. He counted them, and there were more than 321 in total. He didn't know how long it would take to open them, but Lin Zhangqing picked out the three jade boxes pasted with high-grade Spirit-Sealing Talismans first.

Such jade boxes pasted with high-grade Spirit-Sealing Talismans must have good things inside; put them aside first and deal with them last.

Then, he cleared a clean area and put out the remaining 318 jade boxes.

Subsequently, he began to open them one by one. There was no good news, but a lot of bad news. Lin Zhangqing felt more heartbroken the more he opened them. Except for the jade boxes that were empty to begin with,

many jade boxes were opened, and inside were spirit medicines or spirit grasses and the like, and it could be seen that they were all high-grade spirit medicines and spirit plants, but they had all decayed and would shatter into many pieces if touched lightly.

In the end, of the more than 300 jade boxes, the things opened were pitifully few.

The most were spirit materials for artifact refining, with 15 different types, and they were basically Metal-attribute or Earth-attribute spirit materials.

Fortunately, through spiritual pressure, it could be judged that most of them were Third-Grade existences, and one or two of them should be Fourth-Grade spirit materials.

However, Lin Zhangqing couldn't use these things now, so he could only classify and store them first.

The good news was that three jade slips were also opened. He hoped there would be information Lin Zhangqing wanted to know inside.

Lin Zhangqing picked up one, pressed it against his forehead, and read it. Soon he knew the content inside; this was a Heaven-grade advanced cultivation technique, specializing in the soul, named "Purgatory Black Soul Scripture."

The two words "Black Soul" made Lin Zhangqing think of the black light just now.

This "Purgatory Black Soul Scripture" is a complete cultivation series, including cultivation techniques, secret arts, and the refining of matching magic treasures.

And Lin Zhangqing already knew that the things he saw just now were indeed magic treasures, and he hadn't guessed wrong.

However, these magic treasures were not good things! A set of three Soul-Extracting Flying Swords, a Soul-Refining Tower; these were matching. As long as one was killed by the flying sword, the soul would be extracted by the flying sword and finally collected into the Soul-Refining Tower.

Only that shield was a proper good thing, named Heaven-Defending Soul Shield, which was a precious Fourth-Grade divine soul magic treasure.

It can be refined and collected into the Sea of Consciousness to resist various divine soul attacks. Most importantly, it can resist the soul-searching techniques, soul-control techniques, etc., of cultivators up to the Nascent Soul stage, targeting the divine soul.

But for Nascent Soul cultivators, there was no way, unless one found at least Fifth-Grade spirit materials suitable for refining the Heaven-Defending Soul Shield, then it would be possible to resist the soul-searching techniques, soul-control techniques, etc., of Nascent Soul cultivators...

If there were suitable Sixth-Grade spirit materials used to refine the Heaven-Defending Soul Shield, then one could completely ignore the soul-searching techniques and soul-control techniques of Nascent Soul cultivators.

However, this cultivation technique really wasn't a good path. The resources for cultivation were actually the souls of mortals or cultivators. After mortals or cultivators were killed, their souls were collected into the Soul-Refining Tower.

After being continuously refined by the Soul-Refining Tower, they finally turned into a kind of pure soul liquid, which was used as a resource for cultivating the "Purgatory Black Soul Scripture."

These souls that entered the Soul-Refining Tower were equivalent to their souls flying and scattering, forever dissipated with no future. It made Lin Zhangqing's goosebumps rise; it was really too vicious.

Anyway, Lin Zhangqing would definitely not, and would not dare to cultivate it. In the future, he would not let others know of the existence of this cultivation technique, and even if necessary, he would destroy this cultivation technique jade slip.

But there were also some desirable parts inside, such as the refining method of the Heaven-Defending Soul Shield, and the cultivation and usage methods of the two secret arts of soul-searching and soul-control.

Lin Zhangqing didn't want to touch the rest. He had never dared to forget how his Innate Merit True Eye came to be.

(End of chapter)